Improvement in fruit-paring machines



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A. e. B'ATCHELDER.

Improvement in Fruit Paring Machines.

Patented Jan. 2, 1872.

A sAHEL e. BArcEELDEE, or LOWELL, MAssAcHUsErrs.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-PARING IVIA CHINES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N o. 122,305, dated January 2,1872.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Beit known that I, AsAHEL G. BATCHEL DER, of Lowell, ofthe county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fruit-Paling Machilies 5 and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented -in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure l is a top View; Figs. 2 and 3, opposite side elevations, and Fig. 4, a vertical section; and Fig. 12, a front elevation oi' my improved apple or fruit-parer. The remaining figures, toand inclusive of that marked ll, will be hereinafter referred to and described.

My improvement` has reference to mechanism for operating the cutter-carrier.

In the drawing, A denotes the frame ofthe machine, it being provided with a clamp-screw, B, for tixin g it to a bench or table. This fram e' supports, in proper bearings a a, a drivingshai't, C, furnished at' its inner end with a beveled pinion, b. The said shaft (l also has a spur'gear, c, fixed on it, whichpis provided with a crank, d. The gear c engages with a pinion, e, iixed on the rotary fork-shaft f, arranged at the upper part ot' the traine. The fork for supporting and revolving the appleor fruit or vegetable to be pared is shown at D. The beveled pinion b extends between the ranges g h of teeth of two beveled sectors, E F, which are connected together and arranged as represented, the upper of such sectors being asolid or unperi'orated plate or guard arranged to cover the mechanism underneath it in a manner to protect it from parings that may be separated by the knife and be likely to drop into the space between the two sectors. The lower sector E rests on an inclined base, G, and turns loosely on a pivot or pin, i, extended up from such base, which constitutes part ot' the frame A. A helical spring, lr, encircles the pivot or pin, i, and rests against its head and presses downward upon the sector E. There projects from'the periphery of the sector E an areal lip, l, formed 'as represented, and particularly in Fig. 5, which is a top View of the said lower sector, a bottom view ot' it being shown in Fig. 6. There is a cam, m, on the bottom of the Vsector E. There is also a projection, n, ex-

tended from the frame A in manner as shown.

The knife-carrier or lever is seen at H, its fulcrum being shown at o as resting in bearings or standards p p erected on the sector E. The

spring for forcing the knife-carrier to a fruit when on the fork is shown at g. It encompasses the said fulcrum, and at one end is fixed to or inserted in the sector, and at the other end is hooked around the knife-carrier. The knife is shown at r as fixed in the carrier, a side view oi' the carrier being represented in Fig. 7. The shorter arm s of the carrier has a tooth, t, projected down from it to operate with the knife-carrier elevator I, and with a stud, u, the latter being extended upward from the base Gr through a curved slot, fv, made in the lower sector E. A top view of the knife-carrier elevator I is shown in Fig. S, and oppositel` side views of it in Figs. 9 and l0. It turns freely on the pin i, and has two notches, fw w, made in its periphery on opposite sides thereof. Furthermore it has two angular stop-cams, was, extending i'rom it, and formed as shown in Figs. S) and l0, and also in Fig. 11, which is a bottom view of such part I.

If we suppose the fork to be supplied with an apple and the' knife to be in a position to commence the paring operation thereon, the beveled pinion b will be in engagement with the teeth of the lower sector E. 0n the crank being revolved the two sectors will be simultaneously revolved in one direction, and the areal lip l will pass over and upon the projection n. While the sectors are thus in movement so as to carry the knife-carrierabout the apple from stem to eye thereof, the cam m of the lower sector will meet and ride upon the ,base Gr so as to force upward the sectors against the pressure oi' the spring on their pivot. As soon as the areal lip may pass oi' the bearing n both sectors, by the pressure of the spring and by the cam resting on the part Gr, will be moved downward so as to throw the sector Il out of engagement with the beveled pinion and the sector F into engagement with it. The pinion, continuing to be revolved in the same direction as before, will next, by its action on the teeth oi' the upper sector, cause a counter or reversed rotary motion of both sectors, thereby causing the knife-carrier to be moved back to the position for commencing the paring operation. During the counter or return movey' @Erica sa i 122 mentA of the sectors, as mentioned', the areal throw the lower of them again into engagement with the pinion. rIhus reciprocating rotary motions will be imparted to the sectors during a continued rotary motion ofthe pinion in one direction. l/Vhen the lower sector is thrown into engagement with the pinion the tooth t of the knife-carrier will come over one of the notches w w of knife-carrier elevator I, in order to allow the knife to be. sprung forward up to the fruit. During .the advance of the knife around the fruit to pare 'it the rotary elevator I will be revolved one hundred and eighty degrees of a circle, one of its eammed stops or stop-cams being car 1ied over and beyond the stationary stud u of the base G. During the next rotary movement of the sectors the stud fu. and the cammed stop will arrest all rotary movement of the elevator I, and as a consequence the said elevator will serve as a cam to effect with the tooth t the outward movement of the knife-lever on its bearings, while the said lever may be in the act of being carried back ,to the point of commencing to pare the fruit. The outward movement of the lever is totake the knife out of the way of the fork sufficiently for the placing of a Afruit on the latter. During each movement of the sectors to effect the paring of the apple by the knife the elevator I will be revolved through a half-cirole, it being estoppe'd, as before described, during the entire movement of the sectors.

In the said improved appleparer I claim as my invention as follows, viz.:

I claim themechanism or combination, substantially as described, which, with the beveled pinion, is for effecting the reciprocating rotary motions ofthe knife-carrier around the fork, or a fruit whenin the latter, such mechanism consisting ofthe two toothed sectors, E F, the areal lip Z, the stationary project-ion n, the cam m, the base G, the pivot i, and the spring k, all combined and arranged in manner and to operate essentially as specified.

I also claim the mechanism or combination, substantially as described, for effecting the outward and inward movements of the knifef carrier during its rotary motions around the apple or its supporting fork, such mechanism consisting of the elevator I,"the stationary stud u, the tooth t, and the spring g, all being arranged and combined together', and with the base G, the pivot 1'-, the spring 7c, the lever H, essentially in manner and so as to operate as set forth.

I also claim the mechanism, as described, which with the beveled pinion is for effecting the reciprocating rotary motions of the knifecarrier around the fork, or a fruit when thereon, in combination, and arranged as set forth, with the mechanism, as explained, for effecting the outward and inward movements of the kniteearrier during its rotary motions around the apple or its supporting fork, all being as specified.

I also claim the combination and ar `angement of a guard or cover F with the gear or sector E, said guard, as shown, making part ofthe gear or sector F. i

ASAHEL G. BATCHELDER.

Witnesses:

ALANsoN NICHOLS, W. It. BATCHELDER. (8S) 

